Chapter I: QUOTE FROM MEMORY, BUT I BELIEVE I QUOTE CORRECTLY.” (The capitals are

mine.)

May I ask—must an enthusiasm for or against the new movements obliterate all sense of accuracy, all love of clear and rational communication, all fidelity to honest statement, and all interest in truth? Your Mr. Carter and his extraordinary indifference to the workaday obligations of literary criticism have considerably discouraged my interest in the new forces. I can imagine Mr. Carter writing—“Since, as Nansen says, ‘The natives of the polar regions are coal-black,’—(_I quote from memory_), it must be hotter there than at the equator.”

You have printed many encomiums of your magazine: I shall watch with curiosity to see if you print this.

_THE WEAKNESS OF REVOLT_

_Dr. Weil, New York_:

The spirit of revolt is compounded from many causes. Even in the average young girl of whom Mr. Hecht writes in the August LITTLE REVIEW it arises as much from her digestion as from her incomplete physical functioning, as much from her work as from her leisure, as much from her friends as from her freshness. Mr. Hecht would be the first to admit that; would he be equally willing to admit that it meets death variously?

He talks only of the family as the snuffer for the flame. This does not mean that he excludes other causes, but it does mean that he has overemphasized one.

It is true, as Mr. Hecht insists, that the American family tends to quell revolt. The battle of the generations is as old as the race; the family has always struggled to bring the rebel into line for its own preservation. But that struggle in all its various shades of acuteness has become a truism of modern thought, thanks to a multiplex modern drama, a scientific sociology, and even the daily press. Why discuss the subject only to dwell again heavily on the obvious?

The problem is far more complicated. The verdict of guilt against the family grows monotonous when returned at every inquest. To place a single responsible cause for any tremor to revolt that dies abortive is to lack subtlety.

Along with each verdict against the family there is also a verdict against the individual. One is not to blame if she is not a genius, but if even her greatest emotions are somewhat lacking in poignancy, the fluctuating spirit of restlessness in her never reaches the heights which demand action.

Along with each verdict against the family there is also a verdict against the quality of the revolutionary spirit. Not only are its causal factors weak and fluctuating, but the very vagueness which to Mr. Hecht constitutes its charm spells also its damnation. A spirit of restlessness is, in itself, nothing about which one can go to the hilltops and shout, and when it crystalizes in some particular issue,—a book, a picture, a small individual right,—the object often seems too trivial to struggle for. To be sure the principle is not a small thing, but a principle is abstract and when it confronts a concrete bit of suffering, it fades by contrast.

The sordid bread and butter difficulties to be faced by one standing wholly alone, the scathing force of public opinion, the pain of others which, when you love them, is pain to you,—these are realities which only the truly big souls dare to face. For most of us the spirit of revolt is too diffuse even to demand action, and for most of the rest action is too divine a consummation to be compassed by our weak human spirit. Not to any external cause really, but to an inherent lack in us, is it due that we slowly grow complacent, instead of crusading worthily in behalf of liberty.

_Alice Groff, Philadelphia_:

The most of you publishers are such unspeakable Kaisers of Kultur that you treat the geniuses who make you what you are as insignificant privates in a literary army, which you deploy; keeping them dangling upon your critical pleasure, or blowing them to pieces because they do not happen to walk the line _you_ mark out.

I suppose this is inevitable, however, in the present social order and that there will never be free literary expression until there is publishing organization on the part of the whole people for the benefit of the whole people. May the universe speed the day of such organization.

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Gaudier-Brzeska’s Art, by John Caurnos. _The Egoist_, September 1.

Havelock Ellis on Birth Control in _Physical Culture_ for September, October, November.

The Literature of a Moral Republic, by H. L. Mencken. _The Smart Set_, October.

The Undergraduate. _The New Republic_, September 25.

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International Duty and Hyphenated Americans, by Theodore Roosevelt. _The Metropolitan_, October.

In Memory of Lieutenant Rupert Brooke, by Joyce Kilmer. _The Bookman_, September.

Llewellyn Jones on New Tendencies in the Arts, in any issue of _The Chicago Evening Post Friday Review_.

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Transcriber’s Notes

Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.

The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect correctly the headings in this issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW.

The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here (before/after):

[p. 4]:
... me from the golden toombs of youth, from the scarlet graves
of love, I will ...
... me from the golden tombs of youth, from the scarlet graves of
love, I will ...

[p. 10]:
... under the distinction of being a maniacle sensualist, a
libidinous ruffian, a ...
... under the distinction of being a maniacal sensualist, a
libidinous ruffian, a ...

[p. 14]:
... “Peddlars are not allowed on the grounds. He must have
sneaked in.” ...
... “Peddlers are not allowed on the grounds. He must have
sneaked in.” ...

[p. 22]:
... my countrymen the value to them of Memoiren einer Idealisten. ...
... my countrymen the value to them of Memoiren einer Idealistin. ...

[p. 27]:
... Grune Heinrich.... I have lived more intensely with Jean
Christophe ...
... Grüne Heinrich.... I have lived more intensely with Jean
Christophe ...

[p. 34]:
... faced a Herculian task. The government was confronted with a
double ...
... faced a Herculean task. The government was confronted with a
double ...

[p. 37]:
... the verdict over the imbecile Czar and will cleanse the
Aagean ...
... the verdict over the imbecile Czar and will cleanse the
Augean ...